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- balognytts, on 10/12/2007, -4/+28I remember reading this. I think it has already been Dugg!
Still a fun read if you have not yet read it. - elnerdo, on 10/12/2007, -4/+24The reason you sign isn't so that the people at checkout can tell you that you're not the right person. The reason you sign is so you can go back to it in court if somebody stole your credit card. You can show the judge that they signed with a signature other then yours as proof that the person making the transactions wasn't you. Sure, you can sign with anything you want, but all you're doing is losing one of the things you can fall back on in case somebody actually DOES steal your card.
- axox, on 10/12/2007, -0/+20Don't miss Part 2.
http://www.zug.com/pranks/credit/ (direct link to part 1)
http://www.zug.com/pranks/credit_card/ (to part 2) - Lacero, on 10/12/2007, -0/+15Next time I sign a receipt, I'll draw two stick figures humping.
- dhuck, on 10/12/2007, -1/+16second time today digg has been linked to this blog. i don't digg if the blog entry adds absolutely nothing to the article. it hotlinks an image, css's a quote, and calls that good. i wish i could auto-ban digg-submissions that link to certain sites.
- falcon1, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13Really need to stop linking to a blog that in turn links to the site I actually want to see.
- jdroth, on 10/12/2007, -2/+14I'm the guy who posted this to my blog. No doubt I appreciate the link, but it's better to go directly to the source:
http://www.zug.com/pranks/credit/
Voted to bury. I appreciate the thought, but if you want to digg Get Rich Slowly, digg something I wrote. - CaptainScience, on 10/12/2007, -5/+16Seen this before and it IS funny. Would of dugg had they linked to the actual site instead of someone else's blog...
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6That was amazing lol. Trying to buy a 300k tv was the best part =p
- geepee, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5My buddy always signs his CC slips with "Bob Saget"...Never fails to make me laugh cause Bob Saget kicks ass.
- invader, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5part 2 was crazy.. first the drawing of shamu (but as a beluga instead of an orca?) then the negative tip, signed as "Service Sucked"
cracked me up - atbnet, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Thumbs up to you for actually checking the signature and knowing what to do with an unsigned card. The only place that has ever looked at mine is always Macy's and they call me by the name on the card too.
- akcoder, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I read this posting 2 years ago. And since that time, I've stopped bothering to "sign" my credit card slips. Now, I just scribble. Sometimes, the cashier will chuckle, other times they will say "That's not your signature." To which I will reply "No one bothers checking, so I don't bother signing." They give me my card back, and my purchases.
- inactive, on 12/26/2008, -2/+6This article (Part 2) is not accurate. I work at Circuit City, so let me clarify a few things.
1. Nobody @CC works on commission. The last time we were on commission was in like 1999.
2. We're required to check the signature on the credit card receipt for EVERY transaction. If the card is signed properly and everything seems to be fine we might not check it. But if the card is not signed then we will ALWAYS check your ID before tendering the sale.
3. Most employees don't care if you're spending $2 or $2000. We don't get anything from that so just because you're spending thousands of $$, don't expect to get some kind of a special treatment. I love those douchebags that come to the store and say: "I spend thousands of $$$ at this store, and now I have to WAIT to get help?".
I'm so glad I'm a PC Tech so I don't have to sell to those idiots :). - makgyver, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5I like to put the backside of my credit card underneath the slip I'm signing and start tracing the signature from the card through the paper.
- Olain, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Would you guys quit digging so i can actually get a page to load and finish reading it? :)
- mgreenwald, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I've been doing this for a while now it makes for a good time.
-Dr. Greenwich Meantime. - inactive, on 12/26/2008, -0/+3First of all, I'm not making 6$ per hour. Hint: multiply it by 2.5 and you will get an estimate. Second, if you were one of those "ass clown kids who hate their ***** 6 dollar an hour job really stop caring wheter or not its the persons card" then I'm sorry. My store's team actually consist of smart people that care about their jobs (hey, you have to pay for tuition and stuff like that) and their customers.
BTW I didn't say EVERYONE and EVERY ccity does that. Especially if they hire people of your kind that hate their jobs and don't care about customers :) - zeldafan, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4You mean a wall of TV's
offtopicontvs: I think the shamu was the funniest thing in the world, I was crying laughing. - colklink, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Yeah, and then when they confirm that you are in possession of the goods purchased or can prove that you were the one who actually purchased the goods (surveillance cameras) and then contested the purchase, you can be charged with credit card fraud!
I suppose you might get away with it for small purchases, but I don't think you could get a free TV out of it. - otaking, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4It really is a shame the the digg effect affected the website with the ACTUAL CONTENT and not the BLOG which is linked here and is duggmirrored.
- xcodemanx, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3This is incredibly old, and to make it worse, he tried to copy it to his blog, but did a horrible job.
- invader, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3yeah.. because a card thief is going to sign as "Shamu" instead of mimicking the signiture that's on the back of the friggin card they stole!! forging a signiture that you have right in front of you is child's play... literally
- earthtoandy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2that may be one facet but its also a safeguard for retailers. If they can prove its not their signature the store or wherever could get a costly chargeback.
- darkened, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Yeah whenever I buy stuff at walmart or any place that has a digital signature i sign it as an Airplane because it always says “signature accepted”
Only once did a walmart employee look at it, look shocked and then just handed the receipt to me and said have a nice day haha. - green1152, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4Oldie but a goodie.
- inactive, on 12/26/2008, -0/+2I hear you :). Sometimes I feel that some customers actually treat me according to this stereotype. We also have some idiots that work for us but they're in every single place :). There is always a group of people that respects their job and therefore, moves up in the social ladder and there is a group that bitches 99% of the time about everything thats job-related. I really can't say how different retailers compare when it comes to % of idiots working there, because I didn't work in all of them :).
Oh well, at least CC paid for my MS 70-271 certification so there is SOMETHING I got from this job, besides the money :). - charlie55, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3who exactly is the victim of this "prank"?
- MoanRanger, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2The whole idea behind the signature is basically lets say, someone did a purchase and then the statement arrives and he goes to the credit card company that i don't remember doing this, what the credit card company does is sends out a rep to the store the purchase was done and ask them to show the receipt with the person signature.. thus making sure that the item was bought...
From my knowledge all big boxes store get these reps from credit card company every other week, just to collect the receipts for verification purposes. - colklink, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Without trying to continue what is obviously close to a flame war, it is important to add to this discussion that it doesn't matter what position you work in at a retail outlet - they make EVERYONE do sales. I spent more time behind a register than I did a computer. Therefore, I feel that the statements made are a good representation of the "sales" staff as well, since everyone there is a salesman.
While you are right that the employees are usually deprived of respect, I don't think you do anyone any favors by proclaiming that they are unintelligent. I think what you prove more than anything else is that you are (or are at least portraying yourself to be) a closed minded elitist. - mc7winkie, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4I'm also ***** pissed because there is no dugg mirror because you did not link to the source. There is a reason you are supposed to. Jerk offs...
- colklink, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2My favorite is to draw a penis on it. Extra points for details that make it take longer.
- colklink, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2First, I used to work as a tech for a different major electronics retailer (guess which one!) and I made a starting wage of $12 /hr. That's enough to make me care a little more about my job. Second, I don't remember anyone not caring enough to not check the sig, although on a few occasions I may have been so busy that I forgot. So, while you are undoubtedly right that not EVERYONE checks EVERY time, it is likely that they check more often than you lead one to believe.
Come to think of it, I get asked for my ID quite frequently no matter where I go. The worst is Little Caesar's Pizza on $2 pizza night (the only time I eat it because it is pretty crappy pizza, but for $2 I can stomach it). They ask me for my ID EVERY time for a $5.00 charge. - alej744, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1the Poo song
roflcakes - BassJunkie, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I'd have to agree, it's very rare someone actually checks the signatures on a card, in the UK we have moved over to a system called "Chip and Pin" whearby we enter our pin number and don't sign for it as it's "more secure" apparently! Only we still have the option to bypass pin entry and sign and some retailers are having problems with hardware forcing signatures to be used! The other day I was at a petrol station and paid on my credit card, the guy had already accepted to signature AND given the card back before I'd handed him the signed receipt back!
- judsond, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1That is true, if they care, but often they don't because it's not cost effective. The amount of time for someone to dig through all the receipts usually doesn't end up being a good move. For example if you refute a charge at a video store for $2, would you pay an employee $10 to go find your receipt, then mail it and process etc? Probably just take the loss.
- Darth, on 10/12/2007, -3/+4I have done ti a lot of times, say at a store like walmart, or target, lot of times i signed as "this card is stolen"
lol, nothing happens or changes. - digitaldater, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1This is corny. Who would want to be inconvenienced by some nimrod behind the counter. Please look at my ID please. Wouldja? Please? Pleaseplease?
Actually I'm just mad because I have the opposite problem. Clerks love checking my ID just to make conversation or cut into their boredom. All my cc's are from the same bank but each have a distinct characteristic that only I can tell them apart. This apparently holds up a red flag to the lesser thinking.
It also frustrates me that people look at my signature and ask how to pronounce Qui Gon Gin.
Butchers. - mattcoady, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Does it explain how he got to keep his signed copy of the reciept?
- splatnik, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Quit promoting blog spam. I don't need to read someone's interpretation of the article before I read and article talking about the source article.
- usefulidiot, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Ok Really, Do we need some ***** blog to parse the article for us? I thought that was what the digg description was for? Digg is going more and more downhill the bigger it gets.
- SuperCheese, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1If you're going to send us to an old but interesting link, at least send us to the original source instead of some guy's crappy blog.
- DarknessGP, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1a friend of mine has got into the habit of signing "***** you" in big block letters all the time.
- judsond, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Signatures on credit card receipts are just a way to verify the transaction after the fact. They are largely a holdover from when credit cards weren't verified via a network. It doesn't matter if you sign the card, your receipt etc. Also, don't be alarmed or think people are being lazy for not checking. It is a waste of time. Think about how many credit card transactions go on per second in the US, now how many are fraudulent. It's a minuscule amount.
The amount of time to check your signature is not cost effective. Further, anyone who was actually stealing cards would likely use it online or in some other venue where the signature wasn't required.
If you lose your credit card, report it as lost. Don't rely on some system for checking signatures that most people apparently don't understand at all. Since it seems like a lot of people might not be thinking this through, when the retailer swipes your card there is communication between them and their credit card authorization service, which verifies that the card is ok to use. If you report it stolen then it won't work. - postaldave, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2you can digg me down for a useless post but i got to say one thing.
Wow! - sw0rdfish, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1While I'm sure some of them are real, I bet some of the signatures he made on the second copy of the receipt... the one the store doesn't keep. just my instinct.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I would normally agree with you, but in this case, the blog really acts like a nice summary for a multipage article. Progressive lengths of summaries, starting from digg's one paragraph, then 3-4 paragraphs in a blog and then if you have more interest in the story, go read it. Nice strategy, huh!
- zoziw, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I dugg this story just because the guy signed one credit card "I stole this credit card"
- sw0rdfish, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Doesn't change the fact a retailer is supposed to verify... if you sign it a different name or messed up... and then dispute the charge... it's not your signature, so they're not getting paid. Of course you can get nailed for Fraud if they find out it actually was you, but still... it's the merchant's responsibility.
- mc7winkie, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I think we dugg the real site to death...
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